australian gun confiscation

Timms: America’s Disarmament Advocates Revere the Australian Model Even as it Erodes Down Under

Like America, Australia was a European settler colony, founded in the blood of massacred Indigenous people, and has a frontier myth in which guns and conquest have played a historically important cultural role. America had…

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Australian Government Offers Amnesty, Encouraging Aussies to Turn in Their Guns (or Their Neighbors)

In a knee-jerk reaction to a massacre committed by a madman in 1996, the Australian government banned most civilian ownership of firearms. Those still retaining them after all these years face serious penalties if they’re…